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Cazzle's Blurty:
| Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | |
| 10:17 pm | Rambling. So the spare room now has a bed! And a box full of bedding. My next mission is a thin shelving unit, to squeeze between the end of the bed and the wall, so I can get some ponies out and on display. :) The bunners have been out and about today in the garden, which is good. I'm getting a little concerned that as winter encroaches and the weather gets worse, they'll be spending less and less time outside. (Last December-March they got pretty fat - well Barls did, at least; Flora was still growing.) The outdoor play gives them a chance to do rabbity things like sniff and nibble new things and scrabble on the soil and race each other. Inside, they mostly spend their time either a) begging for food, b) lounging about behind the settee or c) grooming each other. (I don't have a problem with C but the other two lead to bored, fat rabbits!) So I need new ideas for how to keep them occupied. Probably involving cardboard boxes, or buying them some more tunnels, I suppose. Finally, today we ate the crumble I made yesterday. It is DELICIOUS. Current Mood:  chipper |
| Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | |
| 9:07 pm | OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I'm off to LA in THREE WEEKS! About bloody time I had a holiday this year, too. ;) Current Mood:  excited |
| Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | |
| 10:52 pm | Warning: boring house-related rambling. Our (ex)housemate came up this weekend to pack the rest of her stuff. Sniff. The removals people are coming to collect it tomorrow. It's pretty sad - it feels like the end of an era. The implications of this, however, are that we now have a spare room. And, in a frighteningly grown-up fashion, we've been talking about what we're going to do with it. Currently, we have the biggest room, and the smallest room is an office. Now that we have an extra room to play with, it looks like we're going to shunt the office into (what was) housemate's bedroom, and this room will become the spare one. Which means that we need a bed. I have been totally in love with the idea of a day bed for some time. This looked really good in the shop, and I have had a crush on this one for ages. However, this room being very small, we really need to go up if we want anything else to fit in here, so it looks as though we'll be purchasing something like this or this. I was really pushing for a double bed, because it'll be more practical for numbers, but there really isn't space in here for a double. And I think we'll need the space below the bed, so a bunk wouldn't work either. In conclusion, we're going for loft bed, I reckon. We also need a new coffee table for downstairs, and a proper unit for the TV/games consoles/DVD player. The main catch there is that it needs to be bunny proof - at the moment everything is perched on some high-up end tables, with the most minimal amount of trailing wire. It looks totally stupid, but it means the bunnies can't chew through the TV cables/Gamecube controllers/etc. I think we need something long, so it can be angled and will prevent them from hopping behind the unit and gaining access to the wires. However, I can't be bothered going to Ikea tomorrow morning before work (I'm doing a last-minute-cover shift, 1-7pm), so we'll see what Tuesday brings... Finally, I have found this blog, which I think is BRILLIANT. Does this mean I am now, in fact, middle-aged? Current Mood:  sleepy |
| Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | |
| 7:30 pm | I am such An Fucking Hero. I went into work today. I don't know why, because I have been so ridiculously ill all day I would probably have been more use at home. In bed. Asleep. Probably because I appear to have some kind of martyr complex, however, I went in. (Okay, reasoning was: a) I'm not going to die, I just feel rubbish; I have felt worse before. b) I was due at The Other Branch as cover. They ask me to work there when there's an existing staff shortage - I went in because they needed a body there.) It turned out to be kind of lucky I did go in, because their permenant Library Assistant called in sick this morning. So, from 8:45 until 7pm it was just the Senior (who was also ill) and me. All in all it's been a horrible, long, draining day and I am so. glad. to be home. I am even going to have an early night after we've seen House. (I must be sick!) So tired. My pile of ironing is growing by the day and the last thing I feel like doing is ANY ironing. Help? Current Mood:  sick |
| Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 | |
| 4:12 pm | Oh very dear. So I am still horribly ill and slept for 12 hours today. I am trying to avoid dairy (mucous = not nice) so I have had no tea today. Well except for that Twinings ginger and lemon thing, but that doesn't count as tea. There wasn't even any caffeine in it. *sob* In a bid to distract myself I've been watching season 3 of Doctor Who. I re-watched Gridlock because I thought it would make slightly more sense this time. It did. But I don't understand why Martha felt so moved by the Daily Contemplation? My brain is sluggish and I can't be bothered to think, to move, to anything. I'm about to watch Daleks in Manhatten/ Evolution of the Daleks and I fear that the Noo Yoik accents are going to bother me. Oh well. Finally, I went downstairs this afternoon to open the blinds, and I discovered that Look what she's done! And I haven't even read it yet! Little bugger. They are both outside now and will stay there until it gets dark. I don't care what they destroy outside! Right. Off to (Noo) Noo Yoik we go... Callie, if I make hot chocolate, wanna come and join me? ;) Current Mood: sick |
| Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | |
| 4:45 pm | Update. So today I successfully picked up my colleagues, located the venue of our Change Management course, and found that it was actually quite good and I learned things. On the down side, I woke up with a bloodshot eye, a headache and a sore thraot, and was unable to breathe through my right nostril. I have definitely got a cold now. Can't. Stop. Sneezing. Still intend to go out drinking tonight. Hurrah! Current Mood: sick |
| Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | |
| 9:16 pm | Day off. Today I could have done lots of useful things, like exchange some currency or do some ironing or tidy my desk, or even something really radical like getting dressed. Instead it is time to go to bed again and all I have done today is: Knit a few more rows of Matt's scarf Reply to one email Drink a lot of tea and eat some cake Organise going to the pub tomorrow night with a couple of friends Read a LOT of fandom_wank Convince myself I am coming down with a cold (I have been sneezing and headachey all day and my nose is running) and... no, that's about it really. ZOMG I R TEH LAZIEST. Current Mood:  bored |
| Friday, September 19th, 2008 | |
| 8:57 pm | This post contains bunny talk. So my buns are looking a little scruffy at the moment as they're moulting. Which is ok, it's what they do around this time of the year. When I put Barley on the sofa and tried to brush her, she tolerated it for about 3 minutes (licking my hand while I brushed her) and then decided she had had enough. (She actually threw the brush around the sofa to show me the strength of her feelings on the matter. She is such a little grump-face when things don't go her way.) I decided she needed to be brushed more, as she still looked dreadful and needed her claws clipping. However, instead of just clipping her claws and leaving the scruffy coat, I thought she needed tidying up first. Mistake. By the time I got to claw clipping she was totally fed up and wanted to get DOWN. I clipped one back claw with her lying backwards on my lap, until she had a fit about it. Then I put her the right way and did one of her front claws. She then tried to nip me, so I elevated both her front paws and just held her until she calmed down. Then, when she realised a) she was not going to permitted to bite me and b) I wasn't trying to clip her claws anymore, I put her on the floor so she could skip away. As she ran off, she thumped the floor at me AND kicked her heels at me. Truly, I am in the bunny doghouse. And her claws still need clipping. Is it wrong that I am considering paying the vet to do them just so she won't hate me? Current Mood:  tired |
| Sunday, September 14th, 2008 | |
| 9:54 pm | I found this in the news today. The NATIONAL news, no less. Sometimes, I am so glad I left. Just.. what on earth would possess you to do that?! I mean I don't like black pudding anyway, but what a waste of food. NEWSFLASH: THE WARS OF THE ROSES ARE OVER, PEOPLE. Yeah I know they're just having a bit of fun but really, it would be nice if Bury could be in the news for something worthwhile. Or, heaven forbid, semi-cool. *despairs* On a slightly brighter note, I have just discovered this. BUAHAHAHA. Hilarious! Current Music: Boulevard of Broken SOngs |
| Sunday, September 7th, 2008 | |
| 3:36 pm | UK Swap - brag post! So due to all my PC problems of late I haven't been able to do this sooner (well not without pics anyway!) But now I am back, the pics are done and I can finally show off about my lovely lovely stash. ( Pics behind cut ) Current Mood: excited |
| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | |
| 9:48 pm | NOOOOOOOO! Talk about counting your chickens. It's locked in a cycle of "You need to activate Windows before you can log on - Yes or No" So I click yes. Then I get a Big Blue Box saying "Windows has already been activated. Click to exit." So I click where it says "ok" ....and get back to step one. I can get in with Safe Mode, but.... GYAH. I'll do another reinstall tomorrow. Current Mood:  frustrated |
| 2:37 pm | YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! MY COMPUTER IS BACK! And it only cost £72 for XP. WHEEEEE! Current Mood:  relieved |
| Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | |
| 9:55 pm | Busy Busy So this week I have worked at three libraries (that's my regular branch, the Other Branch, and a tiny library out near Stanley), bought presents for my mum's birthday, been to a wedding and back on the same day (via York which was Stressful to say the least!) and finished sorting my downstream pal's swap parcel for the UK Swap. The wedding was hard work beforehand because I had a lovely skirt (it looks MUCH prettier when it's actually being worn) and nothing to wear with it. In the end I gave up and just went simple; I chose this, and it worked really well. We didn't go to the actual ceremony, just the reception and the céilidh. And it was fabulous! We arrived at about 3:15, a little later than planned but not too bad. There was cake(!!!) awaiting us of many varieties, and the tables had flying saucers and lollipops scattered on them, as well as little pots of bubbles and construction aeroplanes. LOTS of fun. The dancing was... the most exercise I have done in some time. But it was worth it! We had to leave early as I was working on Saturday, and it was a good 2 hour drive. I just about made it home and did not get enough sleep. Saturday I worked and then babysat, with little of interest to you not-work people really, although the babysitting was great - the young man (he is 4) has taken to saying "Excuse me" before everything he says. Priceless. Today I got up late, faffed about doing some household things this morning (including a very thorough cleaning out of the bunnies' cage), picked enough blackberries to make a pie before discovering we had no butter, and went to a retail park to pick up the last few bits for my swap parcel. This week at work I have to scan in buttloads of shiny new stock, take down my summer display and replace it with something else (possibly the In The Night Garden display?? Possibly the My Little Pony display? Possibly the book-and-the-DVD display I've been mulling over for a while?) and integrate the junior audiobooks with the rest of the stock. It should boost the issue figures because the audio stuff is a bit hidden away at the moment - I've seen it done at other branches and I really like the idea. Also audiobooks are free for kids to borrow, so there's no harm in giving it a try. I also have to teach one of my staff members how to deliver the cartooning workshop I invented last week, and we have to get our heads together and come up with an article saying how great we were during the Team Read - we were both Librarian Coaches on the website, answering kids' questions from all over the country. Yay! Finally, I need to make up the packs we'll be giving to the runners-up in our prize draw - loads of goodies we got for National Year of Reading (balloons, keyrings, hats etc) and the Kipper goodies I sent off for (Kipper 'ears' - basically a paper crown!, balloons, activity booklets, stickers, posters and so on) And if I have any time left at all... I need to do some more ECDL! Only another six modules to go... *die* Current Mood:  energetic |
| Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | |
| 7:14 pm | UK Swap: last questions! Dudes and dudettes, feel free to steal these as meme-type thingies if you so wish... Do you prefer to watch films at home or at the cinema? Either, really. I like watching at home because I can pause if I need a wee, or I can sing along loudly and badly if necessary, or I can play with special features. (I LOVE special features, especially on Disney DVDs.) Also there are no other people there. I am a wee bit antisocial when it comes to noise during a movie/having my seat kicked for two hours. That said, I love the big screen (our TV is the same size as the largest PC monitor in here) and I do enjoy getting the trailers and the popcorn and the comfy chairs. What is the last film you saw? At home, the 2007 remake of Hairspray on DVD. At the cinema, Hellboy II. And I really rather enjoyed it! Have you seen any films more than 10 times? If so which ones and why. Most of the Disney rennaisance movies - Little Mermaid to Pocahontas. I've seen Hercules a lot as well, which I truly believe is an underrated classic. And The Muppet Christmas Carol because every Christmas I have to watch it. And probably the My Little Pony movie and Care Bears II - when I was small I'd watch them if I was sick. What film do you recommend that people should see? I'll stick with Hercules. There's such humour and warmth to it. And Susan Egan's voice is so damn sexy, you'll just love Meg. (Plus James Woods is hilarious. Think Genie, with added evil.) If you could be any character from a film who would it be? Right now probably Tracy from Hairspray! Or possibly Elphaba. Yes I know they have only talked about making a movie of Wicked but it's going to happen, so it counts. Yeeeeah. What three items would you want with you on a desert island and why? A biiig bottle of water. Because I don't fancy drinking my own pee. (assuming I could rescue myself/be rescued before it got to that stage anyway.) Some kind of Swiss army knife. Not that I own one but I wish I did. A roll of gaffer tape. Because if you can't fix it with gaffer tape, you haven't used enough. Seriously! I mean, you could use it to make a waterproof roof for a shelter. You could tape logs together for a raft. If you cut yourself badly you could tape the wound. Etc etc etc. Gaffer tape = love. Current Mood:  full |
| Sunday, August 24th, 2008 | |
| 8:31 pm | Since Kinitawowi isn't on the temporary WD I thought I would come here to say Happy Birthday, Dave! Hope you've had a great day and your PC hasn't yet died. ;) Current Mood: cheerful |
| Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | |
| 9:42 pm | Apathy rules meh. So I've been sitting here more or less since I finished work this afternoon (where, by the way, I totally SAVED THE DAY because the illustrator who was supposed to be running an event today phoned in sick at 8:50, and I I have, in this time, fed the bunnies some carrots and eaten some boiled eggs, had two cups of tea, read several pieces of fanfic (of varying quality), watched the opening to Doogie Howser MD and squeed at how adorable NPH was, watched 2 interviews with NPH and Elmo (!!!) and squeed a bit more, and seen so many clips from Hairspray that I probably know all the dance routines now. Backwards. (Okay that last part was a lie. You all know I can't dance.) AND I STILL HAVEN'T GONE TO TESCO. I really need to go NOW or go and wash my hair before tomorrow, as it is utterly foul and your could fry chips in it. Decisions.... |
| Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | |
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| Sunday, August 17th, 2008 | |
| 6:11 pm | Oh FFS! My weeknd has just got even fucking worse. When Warner Bros. decided to split Deathly Hallows I was going to believe that they were doing it for genuine, artistic reasons. Now I just think they're money-grabbing cunts. Current Mood:  pissed off |
| Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 | |
| 7:14 pm | OW. Also, list-y. Things I have done today: - fallen over on the way to work and skinned both knees and my right palm. FUCKING OW. - ordered new junior books (YAY!) - changed my first bunch of £ into $ - been recommended to buy (by my line manager) the Twilight series for work. (She uttered the words "She's supposed to be the new J.K. Rowling" at which point I internally screamed "NOOOOOOOOOO" and said "NO! It's flabby teenage dross!" or words to that effect.) - cleaned out the bunnies - hoovered up downstairs - washed up - wrapped up the CDs for my mum's birthday Things I have not done today: - ripped a hole in my work trousers during the knee-hurting incident above - read at Storytime :( (I'm on in about 3 weeks' time) - got rained on. (Phew!) - chosen/made a birthday card for my mum - made any tea - watched Hairspray (I have things to do!) - been to Tesco to buy tea. Of both sorts. I think I want pizza or something easy tonight. In other news, my housemate Becky has been offered a job! Unfortunately it's down in Croydon or somewhere. She starts on September 1st and... she will have to leave before then. :-( I like living with Becks. It's easy and fun and I am going to miss her horribly. Though I am now going to be tempted to get the ponies out of storage....... ...... Finally, a whine. I don't have a real copy of Windows on my PC. I let the "You must activate in x days" slip by until yesterday, when it demanded to be activated. So I trotted off to PC World to buy a copy. But guess what? They only stock Vista now! I couldn't just pick a copy up and take it home! I don't want Vista yet. I mean I had to be dragged screaming onto XP after my housemates broke (in a somewhat colossal fashion) my version of 98. I can't afford Vista yet - XP, happily, is less than £100. I don't mind buying a copy of Windows. I would be happy to pay them money and take a nice copy away. So why can't it be that simple?! Bastards. I hate PC World anyway. (If you're wondering how I am posting, I stole Matt's PC. He isn't here and even if he was it'd be tough. :-P I'm nice like that.) Ok, to Tesco I go. Food time! Current Mood:  hungry |
| Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 | |
| 9:38 pm | Not that I usually give a shit about sports, but... ...I thought I should take this opportunity to say well done Germany and Australia in the eventing today, and YAY to Tina Cook for taking home a Bronze! I will follow the Olympics some more tomorrow night when I have the house to myself and I have watched Hairspray. I was fed up of waiting for our copy (which we ordered in JANUARY, people) to arrive so i stole another branch's copy instead. Naughty. Current Mood: pleased |
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